Improvement in gas-globes with prisms



F. S. SHIRLEY.

GAS GLOBES WITH PRISMS.

N0. 180,800. Patented Aug.8, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK S. SHIRLEY, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-GLOBES WITH PRISMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 80,800, dated August8, 1876; application filed November 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. SHIR- LEY, of New Bedford, Bristolcounty, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inGas Globes with Prisms, of which the following is a specification;reference being bad to the ac'com pan ying-drawings, forming parthereof.

My invention relates to the ornamentation of gas globes with dependingprisms; and consists in a gas-globe having the said prisms hung uponthebase or lower edge thereof by means of hooks or links carrying theprisms looped through small openings formed in the globe along its loweredge, as hereinafter particularly set forth.

Figure l is a side elevation of a gas-globe ornamented with prismsaccording to my invention.

B is the gas-globe, of glass, as usually fabricated. -At the base ofthis globe, along the lower edge thereof, as shown, by means of suitabletools, I bore the small holes or openin gs 0, extending preferablythrough the glass of the globe. .The prisms, as shown at O, aresuspended upon the fine wire hooks or links b. One end of these books ispassed through one of the small openings 0, from the exterior to theinterior of the globe, and the end is 'then bent down upon and againstthe surface of the edge of the globe on the inside.

The globe may now be mounted upon its supporting-bracket. By thisarrangement I am enabled to give a highly ornamental appearance to thegas-fixture, and, at the same time, to permit the free access of thelight to the pendent prisms, whereby their reflection and refraction ofthe light is greatly increased.

I am aware that gas globes have been heretofore ornamented with pendentprisms hooked upon a suitable flange or collar attached beneath theglobe for that purpose. I do not claim this device, intending to limitmy claim hereunder to the specific devices herein shown anddescribed-that is to say, to a gasglobe having the pendent prismssuspended to the globe by metal links or hooks passed through openingsformed in the base or lower edge of the globe.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The globe B, having the pendent prisms G suspended to the globe by themetal links b, hooked into the openings 0, formed in thelower edge ofthe globe, as described.

FREDERICK S. SHIRLEY.

Witnesses:

WENDELL H. COBB, GEORGE F. TUcKER.

